Every Wednesday, we round up the offbeat stories in football for you! This week, read what Xabi
Alonso & Diego Forlan's women have to say and watch Hope Solo as she waltzes across the ballroom.
Nagore Aranburu, also known as Xabi Alonso's beautiful and
intelligent wife (classy as Mrs.
What's this tipos,... Black Sunday?! No, it's just
Madrid and Barca fighting it out in black to see who comes up tops in the Spanish
league! And they're both tied in first spot with Levante after a 4-0 (Madrid)
and 1-0 (Barca) victory respectively.
By Elizabeth Hanchett, writing from Toronto
Athletic Bilbao is famous among football circles for being the only club in the world that
insists on signing only local players to their team. Athletic was formed in 1898 in Lamiako (now
part of the town/municipality of Leioa, about eight kilometers north of Bilbao), Bizkaia by British
industrial workers living in the area.
